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8 a.m. classes are gone — but only just.

Most days next fall, the earliest classes will start at 8:30 a.m., but for Monday/Wednesday sections, t hey ’ l l beg in at 8:05 in t he morning.

And those 8:05 a.m. sections are here to stay, according to Helen Doerpinghaus, vice provost and dean of undergraduate studies.

The new schedule has been in the works for the last few years, Doerpinghaus said, and it balances a handful of competing concerns.

Chief among them: As USC’s campus marches across Assembly Street with the new Darla Moore School of Business building and plans for an expanded Greek V i l l age a nd pr ivate ly bu i lt residence hall, it’s become diffi cult to traverse campus between classes in time. That’s led some classes to start late, Doerpinghaus said.

Class lengths wil l stay the same next semester, but they’ll be separated by longer gaps — 20 minutes in the fall versus 15 minutes currently — to allow more travel time.

And as the student body has

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Devia Robinson has seen it all.

From t he woman who walked out of a restroom naked to the man who tried to order a pizza from her sub

shop, she’s borne witness to a full cast of drunken characters in her role as a late-night manager of Jimmy John’s in Five Points.

But one in particular sticks out to her.“She was super drunk,” Robinson said.

“We called her Mayo Girl.”As Robinson, a fourth-year biology

student at USC, remembers it, this par t icu la r customer rea l ly loved mayonnaise. Her order was the same every time: a Club Lulu turkey sandwich with extra mayo and a handful of extra packets on the side. The routine was the same just about every night.

When one manager got fed up and refused her the additional mayo, things got ugly. A fi ery exchange between the two wasn’t doused in the least when she angrily punched the soda fountain and yanked out all of its spouts, hurling them at the manager while soft drinks sprayed the restaurant. Employees shielded themselves from the spewing soda with their aprons as they hurried to stop the fl ow.

Mayo Girl stormed out, leaving the Devine Street deli for the last time.

“We banned her from the store,” Robinson said.

Drunken antics from the late-night denizens of Five Points aren’t anything new, but nobody knows them better than Robinson and the crews of restaurant employees who work into the wee hours of the morning, serving up the meals that mark the end of a night out.

For these workers, the tipsy customers are not only a source of income. They’re a source of irritation and of entertainment. And depending on the night, they’re the best and worst parts of the job.

‘They’re just so rude’On Wednesday through Saturday

nights, Kadijah Clemons clocks in at the Waffl e House on Harden Street around 9 p.m., and she doesn’t leave until morning, sometimes as late as 8 a.m.

She goes home to sleep and spend an hour or so with her 2-year-old daughter before her morning cosmetology classes at Kenneth Shuler start at 9 a.m. The day ends at 3:30 p.m., when she goes home for another few hours of sleep and caretaking before starting the cycle all over again.

Because she has such a straining schedule and gets so little sleep, Clemons said her customers’ attitudes influence

hers a lot — sometimes, one table can make or break a night. Those who are pleasant and tip well make her night, but rude and stingy customers can get under her skin.

“Those customers that run you, and run you, and run you, for nothing — and then they have such bad attitudes — I really hate that,” Clemons said. “And it puts me in a bad mood. I think, ‘Oh my gosh, somebody go take over that table, ’cause I just can’t do it.’

“You have those people who just come in here, and they’re just so rude, because they don’t have a life and their life is so miserable,” she said.

Qdoba manager A.J. Shoemaker isn’t as concerned with customers’ attitudes as much as their cleanliness. On St. Patrick’s Day , the restaurant’s busiest day of the year, trash piles up in the booths, in the bathrooms — everywhere. The fl oor gets so dirty it turns black, obscuring its tiles.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen this place that destroyed,” said Shoemaker, 23, who has worked at Qdoba for about a year and a half.

THE NIGHT SHIFTIn Five Points restaurants, customers’ drunken antics

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Kadijah Clemons (top) and Eden June (above) work late-night shifts in Five Points.

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“The Night Shift” comes from the Summer 2013 edition of Garnet & Black magazine, which was released today. Copies will be available around campus, and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, they can be picked up on Greene Street and on the Pickens Street Bridge.

Someone tried to claim Williams-Brice Stadium for Clemson Tuesday, spray painting an orange paw print on the field where the Gamecocks have beaten the Tigers twice in their last two meetings.

Paw prints and orange graffi ti reading “Go Tigers” were also found on two Cockabooses, luxury tailgating railroad cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Word of the vandalism spread with an Instagram post by cornerback Victor Hampton, who wrote : “It’s war ... so #disrespectful.”

While a break-in at the stadium is possible, Athletics Department spokesman Steve Fink said offi cials can’t tell if force was used to enter Williams-Brice.

“There are times when the gates are open,” he said.Fink said it was too early to say whether law

enforcement will get involved in the case or when the graffi ti will be removed.

Athletics offi cials didn’t know much more Tuesday afternoon, but were still investigating what had happened.

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A USC student was arrested Monday night after the Chi Psi fraternity house director found a jammed shotgun under the house’s stairs.

Tony Silva, 20, a second-year marketing student, was charged with possessing a gun on school property, according to a report from USC’s Division of Law Enforcement and Safety.

By Tuesday afternoon, Silva was out of jail and going through the student conduct process, said Anna Edwards, the director of Student Services.

Silva had asked to borrow the gun from William Benthall, a Midlands Technical College student, to go skeet shooting with his sister, but the gun jammed while they were shooting, the report said. Silva didn’t know how to clear the jam, so he brought it back to campus and stored it under the Chi Psi house stairs, so he could return it to Benthall at the fraternity’s chapter meeting Monday night, the report said.

An offi cer was called to the Chi Psi house by its director just before 10 p.m. Monday when she found the shotgun in a green case.

The house was soon cleared out and multiple police cars arrived, witnesses said.

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been placed on trespass notice by USC police.

Fu r t her s a nc t ion s against Silva and Chi Psi were unclear Tuesday afternoon.

E d w a r d s s a i d s h e would be meeting with representatives from Chi Psi’s national headquarters to discuss the situation.

C h i Ps i P re s ident Michael Leadmon said in an ema i l t hat t he f ratern it y as a whole was not involved in the incident.

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grown, USC’s developed a need for more class sections, since they’ve been fi lling quickly.

“The issue has been around for a long time,” she said.

But the change also adjusts, if sl ightly, to issues with the 8 a.m. time slots.

Fac u l t y a r e mor e willing to teach early in the morning if they have time to take their c h i ld ren to s c ho ol , Doerpinghaus said, and students aren’t usually keen on early sections. Instead, they’re more willing to take classes later in the afternoon.

USC doesn’t collect attendance f igures by time slot, Doerpinghaus said, but filling earlier sec t ions ha s been a struggle.

They’re often among the last sections to be filled come registration

time, and former Faculty Senate Chair Patrick Nolan said last year that 8 a.m. classes were “very u nder popu lated a nd underused” as Faculty Senate f irst voted to change the schedule.

Still, Doerpinghaus said USC can’t do away with morning classes entirely.

“Professors prefer to teach late morning and early afternoon on Tuesday and Thursday. Those are our prime spots, and everybody c a n ’ t t e a c h t h e n ,” Doerpinghaus said. “You

can’t operate a university like that.”

I nstead, USC w i l l h a v e t o k e e p l e s s desirable t imes open, so facilities don’t sit idle and the university stays competitive with other schools — both online programs and physical campuses.

“We can’t afford to have bui ldings stand empty. We can’t afford to build buildings that we don’t use,” she said. “We have to use what we have.”

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A woman was arrested at the Statehouse Tuesday after she stripped to her underwear at a press conference, WIS reported.

A man speaking to promote Palmetto Pride’s “Zero Tolerance for Litter” campaign paused as the woman disrobed and walked toward a c rowd at t he conference , a video posted by WIS shows. He stopped mid-sentence with a simple “uh” before continuing.

Monica Dixon, 42, was arrested as a result and charged with public disorderly conduct. She awaits a bond hearing, and she doesn’t have a permanent address, according to WIS.

Authorities don’t yet know why she got undressed.

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Former South Carolina f irst lady Jenny Sanford fi led a complaint claiming former Gov. Mark Sanford trespassed at her house, The Associated Press reported.

The complaint says Jenny Sanford saw the candidate for the 1st Congressional District at her Sullivans Island home Feb. 3. Their divorce papers bar either Sanford from going to the other’s house without permission.

According to the documents, Jenny Sanford had told her ex-husband “on a number of occasions” not to come onto the property.

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“For the sake of my children I’m trying my best not to get in the way, but he makes things diffi cult for me when he does things like trespassing,” Jenny Sanford told the AP.


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No r m a l w e e k e n d s aren’t quite as hect ic, but t hey can st i l l be pretty messy. The main concern for Shoemaker, and for employees at any establishment that caters to a late-night, largely intox icated crowd, i s vomit.

A ntoine Harley and Eden June are al l too familiar with it. The two Benedict College students, a t h i rd-yea r Engl i sh student and a second-year mass communicat ions student , respect ively, are in charge of keeping t he f ront lobby a nd bathrooms of Cook-Out clean, a challenge at the Harden Street fast-food staple.

“Oh my god,” June said. “The worst part about working this shift is people throwing up.”

‘It’s always something different’

While Mayo Girl never returned to Jimmy John’s, employees there started noticing an odd trend last year, Robinson said. Every so often, a delivery order would come in for a Club Lulu sandwich with extra mayo and more packets on the side.

She was undeterred.Robinson and the rest

of the staff were shocked by her persistence, but restaurant employees throughout Five Points and Columbia’s late-night scene say their jobs leave them incredulous all the time.

Just a sk Jon Plato . He’s a del ivery driver for Insomnia Cook ies and Domino’s Pizza , so most weekends find him waiting on the porches of Columbia’s house parties.

Over the past few years, that has made for some interesting encounters. He’s never quite sure who, or what, will greet him at the door. Plato’s most memorable delivery was to a man who emerged wearing only a paper plate. Others have opted to wear less, streaking past him (or at him, as the case may be) as he drops off their food.

“ N o r m a l c o l l e g e things, I guess you could say,” Plato said, sitting at

Qdoba around 10 p.m. on a quick break from work.

A nd about t w ice a night, he’s met with a certain kind of generosity — invitations to parties and offers of beer and, well, other substances.

S t a n d i n g w i t h Shoemaker behind the counter, Dee Haynes , 21, said she’s seen some of that sharing spirit herself.

S h e r e m e m b e r s watch ing a customer walk outside to a parking lot with his burrito and sharing it with a homeless man, passing it back and forth one bite at a time.

“ I t ’ s d e f i n i t e l y i nt e re s t i n g work i n g here,” Shoemaker said. “It’s always something different.”

Over on Greene Street, Hannah Young said the nights and the chaos of Pita Pit’s peak hours all blur together — a medley of fi ghts, lines of indecisive customers and hours of churning out pita wraps.

But as far as Young, 20, is concerned, the most intriguing part of the job is off the clock, when she and her coworkers step back and observe late night mil ieu from the restaurant’s front stoop.

Their hangout sits in the hub of Five Points. It was s t i r red into a panicked frenzy earlier this semester when a man opened fire on a police offi cer across the street.

R ack i ng her br a i n for what she finds most interesting about a night on the job, she throws out a f ew memor ie s from working inside the restaurant, but it’s the antics outside that she settles on.

“Actual ly, the most entertaining thing is when we sit outside and smoke cigarettes and watch the drunk a--es that walk by,” Young said.

‘What makes me come to work every

day’When a woman walks

into Cook-Out wearing a tiara with a yellow feather boa and a 21st birthday checklist draped around her neck, June, the lobby manager, bounds toward her.

A s t hey pose for a

photo, a few men jump in the frame, and one starts to sway before a friend holds him up. June smiles for a Snapchat with another patron. A few minutes later, she’s w a l k i n g a r ou nd t he restaurant with a single yellow feather plucked from the boa, tickling a few customers on the ear as she passes by.

In the meantime, she tends to the restaurant’s housekeeping. She mops, picks up bits of trash from the floor and confiscates a wet f loor sign from a group who’d put it on their table. All the while, June belts out a few rhythm-and-blues tunes.

June’s singing has won her some recognit ion among the restaurant’s regulars. Walking around with a mop, she is stopped by one customer who makes a song request. She happily obliges.

Every so often, she said, the whole restaurant will join her, singing along to Alicia Key’s “No One,” and other tunes.

“When I’m out in the streets sometimes, I feel like a celebrity, because they’ll be like, ‘That’s the girl from Cook-Out,’” June sa id. “I love my customers.”

While she and Harley, her coworker, willingly a c k n o w l e d g e t h e downsides of work ing t he Cook- O ut n ight shift, they both say the customers keep them coming back. They say the entertainment and interactions make it all worthwhile.

“What makes me come to work every day is you guys, because the check is not even worth it,” Harley said. “I could do better, [but] it makes you want to be here to see the next customer that comes in.”

June nods in agreement and adds that she enjoys connecting with so many different people in various walks of life and states of mind.

“People are usually in their own little world, and you never know what’s going on,” June sa id. “You don’t know if they’re having a bad day or they just had a breakup,” so being able to make them smile, she said, gives her

great satisfaction.And just as rude people

can drive Clemons, the Waf f le House ser ver, crazy after several days of classes and work, cheerful and polite ones can make up for it.

“ T he b e s t p a r t o f my job wou ld be my customers,” Clemons said.

“If I’m having a bad day and I just come in and my customers are here, they make my night so much smoother.”

Robinson, the Jimmy John’s manager who’s been known to patronize the deli herself on nights in Five Points, said despite all the exasperation of a

long, late-night shift, it doesn’t take much to keep her happy.

“Just don’t throw up everywhere, and we’re pretty good,” she said. “That could be our slogan — We can deal with your s---, just don’t throw up.”

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South Carolina’s Congress is not exactly known for being progressive, so it was not entirely unexpected when a bill was shot down in February which would have allowed non-utility parties (that is, anyone other than SCE&G or Duke Energy ) to install solar panels.

It was a minor setback for renewable energy indust r ies in Sout h Carolina, as the new competitors would have driven down the large costs of installat ion. It would have helped South Carolina catch up with its neighbors, N o r t h C a r o l i n a , Georgia and Florida , all

of which rank above the Palmetto State in this billion-dollar industry. Another solar energy bill has just been introduced in the Senate, and if this one doesn’t pass, voters will know exactly who to point their fi ngers at.

The bill is called The Energy System Freedom of Ownership Act. Introduced with bipartisan support, it allows third-party fi nanciers to pay for the initial installation costs in exchange for either a small leasing fee or a portion of the credits and profi ts solar panel owners receive from excess power sent back to the larger power companies. Large up-front costs are one of the biggest reasons many consumers do not invest in the energy source, and the model of fi nancing in this bill could increase personal solar investments. It’s a win-win situation: Customers pay less for energy, South Carolina attracts more investment, the

growth in the industry creates more jobs for the state and carbon emissions decrease signifi cantly.

The only ones who don’t win are the energy companies, and they are putting up a fight. According to a SCE&G spokesman, South Carolina’s State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee recently approved a Council to “study” the solar panel leasing issue, and he says lawmakers should either hold the vote or oppose it until the study finds conclusive evidence in favor of the program.

Supporters of the bill claim the evidence is in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, which are among 28 states implementing this system. Even the small state of New Jersey currently has a solar capacity of more than 500 megawatts as opposed to South Carolina’s 400. What’s more, South Carolina currently receives 100-200 kilowatts of solar radiation more than New Jersey. For another comparison, Germany, which receives roughly 20 percent of its national energy from solar, averages roughly 400 kilowatts of energy less than the Palmetto State. With those kinds of numbers and the huge advantages it could give to consumers and producers in the state, it is a wonder any steps to improve solar power creation in South Carolina are being blocked.

It’s unsurprising when you look at who is opposing it: large, monopolistic, utility companies with heavy lobbying power. It doesn’t take a genius to recognize the “study” as a ploy to delay the inevitable. South Carolina stands to make astounding gains for thousands of citizens if it learns to put their interest above the interest of a few lobbyists with deep pockets.

The strength of community and the tenacious nature of the human spirit are perhaps best refl ected by a marathon, where strangers from around the world cheer on other strangers who have expended so much effort to accomplish a

feat they probably initially considered i m p o s s i b l e . B y t a r g e t i n g s u c h a n e v e n t , t h e perpetrators of the explosions at the Boston Marathon h a v e s h o w n themselves to be the enemies of good, whol ly reject ing our society’s most

valuable tenets — love of life, tolerance and individualism — and using fear to paralyze human progress. While it is terrifying to know such evil exists, it is much more reassuring to know the vast majority of people have responded to the tragedy with an outpouring of sympathy and aid.

It took only seconds for the policemen, fi remen and National Guard members to realize what was happening and begin tearing down barricades to get to the wounded and help people escape the carnage. Local residents brought food and drinks to victims and invited them into their homes to rest. Armies of citizens are donating blood and thousands are expressing sympathy on social media. These actions illustrate the power of community. The goal of terrorism is to break the community’s spirit. Thus, the best way to fi ght it is to remain strong.

Whenever you are tempted to despair over the evil of some people, look instead to how the good respond. There is a quote from Mr. Rogers that captures the sentiment particularly well: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always fi nd people who are helping.’”

Everybody k nows where the verbs “l ike,” “share,” “friend” and “favorite” belong today: Facebook and Twitter. With a click of a button, pictures that appeal to you are immediately shared to your followers. A couple shares later, that tweet or post becomes viral. And if it’s something false or defamatory, you’re now responsible for spreading an awful rumor.

Monday evening after hearing the horrible news of the Boston blasts, I noticed a tweet from the handle @HopeforBoston, which showed a picture of a young girl running on what looked like a residential road surrounded by grass. The tweet read, “R.I.P. to the 8 year-old girl who died in Boston’s explosions, while running for the Sandy Hook kids. #prayforboston”

I glanced again at the photo of the young girl and thought she looked familiar. I looked closely

at the bib on her shirt and noticed the words “Joe Cassella 5k,” which is an annual event held in my small home town of Great Falls, Va. I thought this was suspicious, so I called my parents and friends who still live in the area to see if they knew anything about this. Before I knew it, this photo was all over Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram and had been retweeted more than 80,000 times. Little did users on social media know, the little girl was safely asleep in her home, not knowing her face had circulated the Internet hundreds of thousands of times in just a few hours.

The photo, which was originally taken by a staff writer on my local high school’s student newspaper, had mysteriously gone viral due to one false tweet by a suspicious source. In a few short hours the photo, along with @HopeforBoston, reached national news and was then suspended from Twitter. It’s scary to think a picture from a small town’s high school newspaper’s website could receive national attention like this, and this incident illustrates the power of social media that

many people choose to deny. It also brings into light another important point: We cannot believe everything we see on the Internet.

Unfortunately, the proliferation of this photo was just the start of conspiracies on the web about the Boston blasts. A photo of a man who lost his leg and was being wheeled away Monday afternoon after the bombing was compared to a photo of a man who lost his legs in Afghanistan two years ago. While this photo also went viral on Facebook in minutes, it makes me wonder how many other fake photos are fl oating around the Internet.

With more than a billion users on Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms , it is inevitable that social media is an interactive and commonly used method of communication among people. That said, individuals must think before they tweet and remain extremely cautious about what they share on their social media pages.

— Paula Novacki, third-year public relations student

Very few people can truthfully say that they enjoy wrenching themselves out of bed at the crack of dawn for an 8 a.m. class, so we were all pretty excited when the USC administration told us they were going to get rid of them.

Well, it turns out that whi le they technically d id get r id of 8 a.m. classes, they’l l now be h e l d a t 8 : 0 5 instead. Cruel joke, USC. The administrators’ reason ing was t h at bu i ld i n g s p a c e i s t o o v a lu ab le , a nd the school can’t a f f o rd t o not use classrooms when they can b e u s e d . B u t

take a glance in any room at 8 a.m. on a Monday morning, and it’s clear the classroom space isn’t being used anyway. And by that we mean when classes are held that early, students just don’t go.

The earliest classes are the last ones filled and have the lowest attendance rates and the least student participation. Not to ment ion they can be highly inconvenient for professors as well, since many with families are not able to drop their kids off at school if they have to be in the classroom so early.

The u n iver s it y shou ld cons ider pushing class start times back further; fi ve minutes just doesn’t cut it. There’s o b v io u s l y a d e q u a t e d e m a n d f o r later classes from both students and professors, and pushing classes back an hour or so could also increase what students get out of their education. It’s a win-win situation we can sleep easily with — and for longer.

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5Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Pop-punk aims for ‘Legendary’

Carrie Underwood to perform ‘Blown Away’ in Columbia

It’s one of those bands that posted on a MySpace music page about a featured spot on PureVolume.

The music is infectious, a high-pitched pop punk with lyrics to match, and the melodies make for the perfect opening spot to a semi-big-time headliner.

Lead singer Brian Dales has played with the gel-sculpted faux-hawk and a popped jean jacket collar, and the whole act gets a big dose of cool points for their female drummer, Jess Bowen.

But still, in six official years in the mix, The Summer Set hasn’t broken through the undiscovered bubble — they’ve had some small-time success, but no paparazzi.

Bowen and the boys are putting the power in the name now, though, and switching things up in a new full-length: “Legendary,” released Tuesday.

The Su m mer Set has long released EPs and albums on Razor & Tie, a label out of New York that represents an eclectic list of artists: Madina Lake, Saves the Day and The Wiggles, just to name a few.

In its latest release, however, the band has switched to Fearless Records, a much more fi tting group of names. The group sits between Forever the Sickest Kids , Plain White T’s and The Maine, all bands that would share the same music library.

On Tuesday morning, a day the band dubbed #Legendary Release Day early in the Twitter-sphere, the

album dropped at No. 3 on iTunes’ pop charts and No. 9 overall. Yes, it was a bit surprising to me, too.

T he S u m m e r S e t f o r e v e r preserves high school years filled with local concerts and meet-and-greets by band’s T-shirt stands. That being said, it’s hard to judge the band’s musical prowess.

Dales sings with a voice perhaps most akin to a 16-year-old girl — It’s really impressive. He’s not bad, he’s in tune, even on acoustic videos, but his vocals fall into an auto-tuned sound without the auto-tune.

It’s like Taylor Swift sucked down a balloon full of helium and gave her best run at “22.”

B e f o r e y o u e v e n o p e n “Legendary,” you feel it. You feel the bubble gum and happiness and high-range harmonies. The album art is a makeshift Illuminati pyramid, outlined in pretty rainbow landscapes. Bowen has been calling Twitter followers who pre-ordered the album, and early-release music videos play with pastel-painted skies and sparklers.

The f irst t rack f its into the rainbow.

For the full ef fect, v isit the Fearless Records YouTube page. The music v ideo for “Maybe Tonight,” the opener, starts with a Dales monologue that sounds like something out of the tunnel in “Perks of Being A Wallfl ower. ”

Walking in skinny jeans and a hoodie, he says: “That moment, of all moments, like there is music in the night and we can dance the sun out of the sky ... Tonight we are more than just words on the page.”

It’s a little much. But the following song is solid.

“Jukebox (Life Goes On),” not so solid. The intro sounds like

something of f “K idz Bop” — another winner signed to The Summer Set’s previous label, Razor & Tie — until you get to, “I need a Jameson shot of confi dence.” It just doesn’t fi t.

A few lines later: “I’m a little obsessed with Dawson’s Creek.”

And we’re on to the next one.One of the album’s first singles

was “Lightning In A Bottle.” It’s good. You’re “throwing your hearts in the air,” “dancing in the backseat,” generally just feeling like a carefree Summer Set Day. Then, boom, “Don’t give a f—k about tomorrow.” It’s really just jarring, like if you were rocking out to a great Hilary Duff track and 2 Chainz rolled in for a quick hook.

“Heart on the Floor” features a former contestant from “The Voice.”

One of the band members did some wrong in the game of love. The eloquently t it led “F—k U Over” plays on the chorus, “We can rock the world tonight, but no, it doesn’t have to be love.”

“The Way We Were” is more heartfelt, probably not about the same lucky girl or guy from the previously mentioned number.

The album leaves on the same unsure note as before. A lot of the song beginnings set up a promising run. Dales sets up a defi nite style, some expectations and a learned kind of appreciation.

But the little jerks and unexpected f-bombs thrown into the lyrical mix don’t fit the feeling. Bringing a harder, more grown-up edge to a sound that sticks to those high school shows is a hard tackle, and The Summer Set fel l short of “Legendary.”

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Th e Summer Set switches labels, adopts harder lyrics

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The Summer Set released its latest album, “Legendary,” Tuesday with Fearless Records, the home of Plain White T’s.

USC grad travels ‘Road to Roo’

Scroll over to the community section and down two rows to the musicians.

A band built in the Craigslist classifieds section doesn’t sound like the makeup for musical success, but Broken Compass Society has come together in the most unconventional, online way.

Kevin Harrison graduated from USC in 2009, and after a brief stint at a desk job, he moved to Charlotte and began playing as a solo artist. Now he and the Society have a chance to take the Bonnaroo stage in June.

Harrison started with a more acoust ic folk following and recorded his fi rst album, “Lost in Found,” in 2010.

“ I ju s t s t a r ted h it t i ng the strings and hoped they sounded pretty,” Harrison said.

A full band became a part of the dream — He brought loop peddles and anything “that made it sound like something more than just me” into his stage act.

“But, it was a lot more fun playing with other people,” Harrison said.

He caved.He posted an ad on Craigslist for a backing band. It

took a while, and some auditions were noteworthy in the not-so-great way, but eventually Harrison found his drummer, Sean Hartis, who then introduced him to bassist Alex Council.

The band was born in Charlotte, but has since moved to New York City where the guys have picked up one more member from the pages of Craigslist: guitarist Brendan Cavenaugh.

“We had good luck before, so we put up an ad and

said, ‘Let’s see who we find,’” Harrison said. “He came in and

just blew us away his fi rst practice.”Broken Compass Society released its

fi rst, fi ve-track EP in August and, now working in a more rock-centered, New York City market, the band hopes to pave a career with what Harrison described as bluesy, folk-y rock.

Harrison got his start playing USC’s Relay for Life and other charity events in Columbia. He said the start of his music was shaped by Hootie & the Blowfi sh, but as Harrison took on a harder rock edge, he turned more to groups like the Black Crowes.

Now, Harrison and the Broken Compass Society have booked a May 26 show at The Bitter End in

New York City, the club where Bob Dylan started his career.

The guys also have a shot at the Bonnaroo stage this summer — a goal the band’s been chasing for two years now. The “Road to Roo” contest will pick one band to slot into the opening lineup. It runs through April 24 and the top-10-voted bands will have an audition in front of the festival organizers.

Last year, Broken Compass Society made the top 40 out of 1,100 applicants, and this year, the band hopes to break the top 10.

People can vote once a day at bonnaroo.sonicbids.com/road-to-roo.

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Broken Compass Society grows from Craigslist to festival hopeful

Carrie Underwood will bring her blown-out blonde hair and Southern sass to the Colonial Life Arena tonight with opening act Hunter Hayes.

The former “American Idol” turned new-age country royalty is bringing her “Blown Away Tour” to Columbia. It’s a show fi lled with hits off her fourth album “Blown Away” like “Good Girl” and “Two Black Cadillacs.”

Underwood has long been establishing her sweet and sassy, sometimes a little salty, image since 2005’s “Some Hearts.” She played up big curls and cowboy boots with “Jesus, Take the Wheel” and showed no mercy on “Before He Cheats.”

This tour is sa id to be more of the Underwood fans love, but with an even stronger, more fi erce power-lady front.

Hunter Hayes is a 21-year-old newcomer who’s making singles out of tracks from his fi rst, self-titled 2011 release. His sweet smile and pop-infused country won listeners over on “Storm Warning,” “Wanted” and “Somebody’s Heartbreak.”

Tonight’s show begins at 7:30 p.m., and doors open at 6:30. Tickets range from $43.50 to $63.50 and can be purchased online at coloniallifearena.com.

One dollar of each ticket sold will support Red Cross disaster relief.

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Women’s tennis prepares for tournament

USC defeats College of Charleston

As the No. 8 seed Gamecocks prepare to transit ion from their regular season fi nale into the start of the SEC Tournament against ninth-seeded Ole Miss, Katerina Popova is looking forward to showing her opponents just how aggressive she can be.

The junior improved to 19-8 for the year in doubles with her partner, Josefi n Andersson, ending the season with a 15-3 record in dual matches and a 7-2 record in the SEC. Though the two lost their point in doubles in this past weekend’s match against No. 47 Kentucky, coach Kevin Epley was impressed with Popova’s individual improvements and contribution to the team’s success.

“[Katerina] is one that understands her game probably better than anyone on the team. She doesn’t give a lot of points away and knows exactly what’s happening on the court,” Epley said. “She got a lot of wins for us and has also done that at doubles as well, and she’s been an extremely valuable player for us.”

This is the last year Popova will work with Andersson, but the duo has played together since last season. Popova said it’s “awesome” working with Andersson and that they know what to expect from each other during the match.

With experience play ing both s i n g l e s a n d d o u b l e s , Po p o v a recognizes the challenges with each and hopes to capitalize on those for future wins.

“When I play doubles, I have more responsibilities because it’s two of

us,” Popova said. “If I miss, I know that my partner has to work a little bit harder because we’re equal. On the other hand, it’s easier because you have somebody to help you. When playing singles, you are in control of the whole situation — Everything is in your hands.”

Popova said her aggressive mentality comes from her will and need to win matches and improve in every game.

“I fought, because I knew that it’s going to be tough,” Popova said. “It’s going to be a tough conference, and I have some goals and I just want to achieve them. I have more confi dence now in my game, and I just want to use this confi dence to have even more confi dence, and people will be scared of me.”

Epley said the Gamecocks (13-10, 6-7) are in for a battle this weekend against Ole Miss, and the outcome could determine whether the team gets into the NCAA tournament. However, he said he’s seen a steady improvement in all of the girls and recognizes those challenges they face.

“Our main chal lenges are our eternal challenges of overcoming ... negativity and being emotionally resi l ient enough and committed enough to win, even when things get tough,” Epley said. “This last week was our f irst real step backwards, and hopefully we can get ourselves situated for the SEC tournament.”

Popova said there is a sense of unity on the team as they all continue to fight for each other and help each other out. She hopes when people look at her, they see a “fi ghter” and that it pushes them to fi ght and work hard, too.

“Ever y day is g iven for us to improve,” Popova said. “I just want to keep improving and keep going.”

Gamecocks will take on ninth-seeded Ole Miss in fi rst round

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Katerina Popova said she will try and focus on being more aggressive and confi dent in the SEC tournament. The junior posted a 19-8 doubles record in the regular season.

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Junior outfi elder Graham Saiko has his fi rst four-hit game of the season, going 4-5 against the Cougars and hitting his fi rst home run as a Gamecock Tuesday night.

In No. 21 South Carolina’s fi rst action since being swept at Florida over the weekend, coach Chad Holbrook said it was important for his team to get back on a winning track.

The Gamecocks (28-10, 8-7 SEC) did so behind an offensive explosion at Carolina Stadium Tuesday as South Carolina beat The College of Charleston 10-6 in a game that featured season-highs in hits and RBIs from several Gamecocks. Junior outfi elder Graham Saiko produced his fi rst four-hit game of the season, going 4-for-5 at the plate with one of three South Carolina home runs on the day.

“We’ve known we’ve been able to hit like this as a team,” Saiko said. “We’ve been struggling a little bit, especially last weekend down in Gainesville, but hopefully tonight gives us some confi dence as a team.”

A first-year Gamecock after transferring from Tallahassee Community College, Saiko’s home run Tuesday was his fi rst in the garnet and black.

Despite the recent losing trend, Holbrook said his team has not lacked offensive fi repower, citing an increased team batting average in the last several games.

“We’ve put together some games offensively,” Holbrook said. “It’s good to see, and we’ve hit the ball out of the park too, and that’s not bad.”

Shortstop Joey Pankake and outfielder Connor Bright did their parts at the plate as well, both tying season-highs in the RBI category with three apiece. Both Pankake and Bright hit home runs on Tuesday.

Junior Forrest Koumas struggled in his third start of the season, exiting the game after 2.1 innings pitched after allowing four runs on four hits and recording three strikeouts. Freshman Vince Fiori was credited with the win Tuesday after entering the game in the third to replace Koumas and allowing no earned runs in his own 2.1 innings of work.

“Fiori’s pitched well for us; he really has,” Holbrook said. “There’s no fear in Vince Fiori, so I don’t have any problem putting him in the game.”

Fiori had a disappointing series against Florida over the weekend, but Holbrook said the freshman’s competitiveness and aggression make him an asset to the lineup regardless of his numbers.

South Carolina cycled through five pitchers Tuesday, closing the game with senior Colby Holmes because of the absence of the usual closer, senior Tyler Webb, due to pain in his throwing elbow. Holbrook would not rule out Webb’s availability for the upcoming weekend, but he said Webb is not considered probable.

The coach has also tossed around the idea of sending Pankake to the mound in the near future, saying the everyday shortstop was available to pitch Tuesday but “the timing wasn’t right.”

South Carolina will look to build on the win against the Cougars when they face Kentucky at home this weekend, and Holbrook will look for his team to continue its hot streak behind the plate as it attempts to rebound in the SEC.

“It was obviously a good win for us coming off a tough week,” Holbrook said. “All-in-all it was good to get a win and get that bad taste out of our mouths.”

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Freshman pitcher Vince Fiori credited with victory in 10-6 win

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